Volume 2, No. 8

June 2013


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Comment Magazine - Volume 2, No. 8

04

On The Table

By Licia Corbella

Former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein kept a lot of sky between himself and religious faith. Licia Corbella talks to the man who brought him to Christ at the very end.
06

Small Talk

By Raymond J. de Souza

Our Editor-in-chief casts a gimlet eye over wrongful convictions, French National secularism, and Hamilton’s missing map mix-up. ... read more
08

God, Greed & Gaming

By Raymond J. de Souza, Mark Carney, and Roger Martin

In God we trust. Capitalism? Ummm, these days not so much. Mark Carney, Roger Martin and Father Raymond J. de Souza on restoring faith in the financial world.
17

Dharma Matters, Buddhist Batters

By Barbra Clayton

Barbara Clayton talks to Convivium about Cape Breton’s Gampo Abbey, where the Shambhala Buddhist monks swing for the fences at the annual July 1 baseball game.

21

A Cultural Memoir

By Barbara Kay

An excerpt from National Post columnist Barbara Kay’s new volume of essays.

27

The Scandal of Falling in Love

By Alisha Ruiss

Falling in love is like falling up stairs – nothing to fear as long as you follow the right steps, says Montreal writer Alisha Ruiss.

32

Too Homely for Hollywood?

By Russ Kuykendall

Russ Kuykendall reviews A House of Cards.

34

Let Free Markets Distribute

By John Robson

G.K. Chesterton was right about almost everything, John Robson argues, except economics, which he got horribly, horribly wrong.

37

God's Reality Show

By Diane Weber Bederman

Diane Bederman urges us to let tragedy illuminate the essential ambiguity of God’s will.

39

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda in Whatcott

By Albertos Polizogopoulos and André Schutten

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on hate speech could have been better — but it also could have been a whole lot worse, say Albertos Polizogopoulos and André Schutten.

42

Sea to Sea

By Raymond J. de Souza

Father Raymond J. de Souza has fond memories of the late Maggie Thatcher and the great Johnny Cash, but can’t recall NBA players being feted on the cover of Sports Illustrated for their monogamy, fidelity and chastity.

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This Issue

The June/July issue of Convivium highlights the need for, and prospect of, rebuilding trust in global financial markets through an infusion not just of liquidity but of virtue. It is a task of a magnitude beyond what even Ralph Klein found himself facing in trying to bring Alberta back to fiscal order 15 years ago. In a much broader sense, of course, Father Raymond is referring to the never-ending struggle to re-open the pages of our hearts, to reread the divine words written there with the infinite clarity of grace.

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